Smart meters the best way to tackle power theft menace

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Xenius

• Smart Meter Company

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Smart meters the best way to tackle power theft
menace

• Electricity thefts, besides causing a drain on
  the power departments finances and affecting the
  quality of power supply, are also responsible for
  increasing the tariff burden on an average
  consumer. Installation of smart meters is the
  best way of checking this criminal practice and
  the Government is doing well to digitalise the
  existing power infrastructure in the country.
• Electricity theft is the criminal practice of
  stealing electrical power by tampering with
  electricity meters or by tapping into the grid by
  wire or any other means. It is an illegal
  practice which is punishable under the Indian
  Electricity Act, 1948. The Act enables the
  electricity department to lodge an FIR against
  the defaulter and letting the court decide the
  penalty to be imposed or duration of the jail
  term.

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Electricity theft can be committed by various
ways, the most common being tampering with the
electricity meters. It is done by breaking the
seal of the meter, reversing or stopping the
mechanical disk from moving, or altering the
actual reading. The reading can also be altered
by connecting the meter directly to the fuse and
preventing it from recording energy consumption.

• The Indian Electricity Act, 1948, enables the
  electricity department to lodge an FIR against
  the defaulter and letting the court decide the
  penalty to be imposed or duration of the jail
  term.
• Electricity boards suffer massive losses due to
  electricity thefts. These losses not only affect
  quality of power supply or increase load on
  generating station, they also impact tariff for
  genuine consumers.
• The most significant solution to power thefts is
  installation of smart meters. These are the
  devices based IoT that record consumption and
  send the information back to the utility on a
  real-time basis.
• Under the National Smart Grid Mission, the
  Government is planning to convert every grid in
  the country into a smart grid and also
  interconnect every grid to function as a single
  unit.

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• Another way of executing an electricity theft is
  by illegal tapping of underground cables. In case
  of transformers, the overhead lines are tapped on
  the side of low voltage of the transformer. At
  times, the electricity sanctioned for residential
  purpose is used for commercial purposes. This too
  amounts to electricity theft.
• Each year, electricity boards suffer massive
  losses due to electricity thefts, which are quite
  prevalent in the country. These losses not only
  affect the quality of power supply or increase
  load on the generating station, they also affect
  the tariff imposed on genuine consumers. It is a
  tough task for the power utilities to detect the
  instances of power thefts and punish those
  responsible for these criminal acts.

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• The most significant solution to power thefts is
  installation of smart meters. These are the
  devices based on Internet of Things (IoT) that
  record consumption and send the information back
  to the utility on a real-time basis. Smart meters
  can also detect any tampering done at the
  power-receiving end and send real-time
  notification to the utility in case any anomaly
  is detected.
• To prevent the massive losses incurred by
  electricity departments due to power thefts, the
  Government is planning to fully digitalise the
  existing infrastructure in the country. Under the
  National Smart Grid Mission, it is planning to
  convert every grid in the country into a smart
  grid and also interconnect every grid to function
  as a single unit.

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Know about Xenius

• At Xenius we believe in making lives better by
  Humanizing Machines. We can contribute with you
  to make your life stress-free with Prepaid
  Metering, Smart City to Smart Grid, to FTTH. We
  started our mission in 1998. After almost two
  decades of success, we have emerged as one of the
  top IoT / M2M professionals in India.

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Contact Xenius

• Address H-98, H Block, Sector 63, Noida, Uttar
  Pradesh 201301
• Email info_at_xenius.in
• Phone [phone]
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  t-way-to-tackle-power-theft-menace/

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